The 2012 Defensive Player of the Year was at it again this week, making the day for a 12-year-old cancer patient whose story inspired Watt to pay a surprise visit to the young fan.

KHOU has chronicled the story of Cristian Beasley, a sixth-grader from Splendora who is battling leukemia while still finding a way to get his school work done.

Beasley is one of 34 students across the country using the VGo telepresence system, which allows him to control a small robot from home that attends school in his place. Beasley named the robot after Watt. Watt saw the story and decided he had to meet the young man.

According to the KHOU report, Watt spent more than two hours at the child’s home, playing backyard football and hacky sack with Beasley and posing for photos with the family. Watt then took a trip with the child to his school, Greenleaf Elementary School, where he met with other students.

Watt tweeted about the experience and included some photos.

Honored that Cristian named his robot after me. Thankful for the technology allowing him to attend school from home twitter.com/JJWatt/status/…